WEBVTT - 102: Dirty Little Secrets 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.720 Unpacking the toolboxes of production of Shondo Land Audio. In 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:32.920 partnership with I Heart Radio, Katie, the SNL did a 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:36.280 parody of Olivia Pope. Cecily Strong played Quinn and who 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.279 played Hawk. I don't I don't remember this. He's one 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:41.520 of he's a great actor. I can't remember his name, 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:46.680 but he was so good it was unfucking believable, Like 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.519 I was losing my mind. That's the first time we 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.960 were like, oh, We're like like this is crazy, Like 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.000 we're on SNL. No, this is nit. Guys, like this 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.360 is like a cultural phenomenon. If you get parodied on SNL, 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.600 you've made it, folks, you have made it or your 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.480 or your life is over because you're like, you know, weener, 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.240 the guy that showed his weener to the world or whatever, 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:10.880 the political guy. We literally did an episode of scandal 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.800 on the weener thing like sending Dick pis. We had 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.279 like a guy that had to get fixed for sending, 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:19.160 tweeting and sending out too many tests. Yes, yes, yes, 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:23.800 there's so much to talk. I'm honestly giddy, like I 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:28.160 feel I love it very I love you very much. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:33.240 I love you too, Katie. Okay, Garo Diaz and I 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:37.800 are just going through paperwork right now because you have, 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.240 like a I have a fucking book. I wrote down 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:46.560 your book. Okay, we're so fucking pumped, to be completely honest. 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.120 So guys, here we have episode one O two. It's 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.040 titled Dirty Little Secrets. We all have some of those, 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:56.880 don't we have. It first aired on April twelve, two twelve. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.520 That's a long ass time ago. It was written by 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.640 the AUSO Heather Mitchell, and directed by Rocks and Dawson. 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.560 Remember Rocks, and she was one of my first obviously 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.840 one of the first directors. Yes, and I think she 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:09.600 was our producing director of that season, but we'll get 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.239 into that later. She was, yeah, yeah, And this episode 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:16.079 is guest starring Mimi Kennedy as Sharon Marquette, John gets 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:20.119 Patrick Keating, and Megan Gallagher is Stacy Keating. I'm gonna 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.400 take you through the synopsis of the episode of Scandal 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.040 pace because we need to get into this episode and 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.160 we cannot be bothered with all these logistics. But I 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.320 just want to say it really quickly in Scandal past speed, 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:29.640 so that you know what the hell was going on 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.200 in the episode. So the synopsis is Olivia must protect 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:33.799 a new client who's under investigation by the U. S 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.000 Attorney's Office. Quinn runs into trouble with the Mandatanna when 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.720 a charming reporter, Gideon Wallace approaches Quinn of the hospital 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.640 trying to get information. Meanwhile, at the White House, President 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:43.720 Grant is just nominated his first Supreme Court justice, a 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.320 man who has cross pads with Olivia's most recent client. 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.320 Oh my god, Katie, that was way too fast. I 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.600 feel like I feel like it might be a little 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.160 too fast for the listeners. Like I get it, you know, 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:55.799 we're so used to as scandal place. But I'm gonna 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:57.800 do it. I'm gonna try to just, you know, slow 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.919 it up a little bit for for the listeners. Okay, 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.200 let me let me let me hear you. Olivia must 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:03.920 protect a new client and your investigation by the US 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:05.679 Attorneys Office. Quinn was as a trouble with a Mandy 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.160 Tanner with the charming report Gideon Wallace approaches Quinn at 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.560 the hospital trying to get information. Meanwhile, at the White House, 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.880 President Grant has just dominated his first Supreme Court justice, 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.080 a man who has cross passed with Olivia's most recent client. 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.800 Damn it. We can't stop scandal pacing? What is wrong 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:22.160 with us? Every job I did after Scandal, they were like, 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.640 can you please just take your time, like slow it down? 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.600 We are ruined as actors. Thank you so much, Sean Rhimes, 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.400 But like, yes, first of all, we must know, Garmo, 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.160 that was really fucking fast. And I always won the 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.280 award as the fastest scandal pace speaker on the cast, 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.120 and you just gave me a run for my money. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.000 That was pretty fast. Huh. It was really fast. And 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:47.080 also we have to give such applaud to Hawk because 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.440 not only did you master scandal pace, but you would 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:54.600 normally have to speak at scandal pace whilst saying absolute 0:03:55.160 --> 0:04:00.520 hacking jargon like QR facial recognition software. Yes, stuff, I 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.560 had no idea what it meant or what it was. 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.760 I you know, Houck is is this type savvy like 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:12.000 character obviously everyone knows but me. Garmo Diaz is like, um, 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.120 where do I go on my phone to turn on 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:19.200 the light? Like I'm worse? I think even for this podcast. 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.799 Someone sent you a link for us to like open 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.560 up our first meeting on this podcast, and you're all 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.120 texting me like can you like text me that link. 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:28.240 I don't know if I can get it on my 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.880 computer or my phone. And I'm like, Guillermo, I sure did, 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.280 I sure did. I was like, Katie, thank you so much. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.680 All right, So that's what happened in the episode. But 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.640 like sitting down and rewatching episode two gave me such 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:49.000 fucking vibes because it's just so classic early Scandal. It's 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:53.080 a case of the week. The case is Sharon Marquette, 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.320 who's played by Mimi Kennedy, and she's like, I'm d 0:04:56.520 --> 0:05:00.279 c's finest madam, is what she says. She's based sly 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:04.040 running a whorehouse for like all these politicians where they 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:08.120 get their fancy as hookers. And it's the first episode, 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.240 you know, once we got picked up. Wait, by the way, 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.839 how long was this between shooting the pilot and when 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.920 did we start this? Do you remember? I was going 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.479 to ask you that because one of the one of 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.360 the things that like stuck out for me in this 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:26.440 episode was Carrie's wig. I was like, oh, we got 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.479 some money. Now. They're like, okay, we want to order 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.320 like seven episodes or six because we had done the pilot. 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.520 But I was like that, wiy got spruced up. It 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.240 looked like she went through the Emerald City makeover that 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.040 Judy Garland goes through, and all of a sudden, she 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.200 got this like fancy, like curly like up Like you know, 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.719 everyone is listening. When you shoot a pilot, it's like 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.800 they don't give you. I mean, they give you money, 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.520 but it's not like if it's series and it goes 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.919 to series, they're gonna like commit a little bit more. So, 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:56.240 yeah's wig and when she comes on this show, we 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.600 have to have like a whole conversation about wigs because 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:00.120 I know she made a lot of character choice is 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.360 based on whether her hair was curly or straight. But 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:07.040 I think that we see a major upgrade in this episode. Yes, 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.160 in the first couple of minutes of this episode, we're 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:15.599 already listening to Stevie Wonder. It's already like don't down't down, down, down, 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:20.600 let down. And you and Abby are in the Madam's apartment, 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.080 you know, Steven played by Henry and Cusick is out 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.119 on the street on the phone with Olivia, and David 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.080 Rosen drives by and we're on a ticking time clock 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.240 where like, you guys gotta totally take over whatever is 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:35.400 in her apartment before the cops get there. Yeah, yes, 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:40.680 and it just seems so cool. Record scratch to Quinn 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.800 standing waiting for the elevator to come up like a 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:48.280 freaking loser. She's like, what the hell is going on? Well, 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.880 Quinn is also the audience, right, Quinn is the one 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.839 that's like, Okay, what's what's going down here? Like, film 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.080 me in, and no one's like really filling her in, 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.160 and they're just like you gotta learn, like you gotta 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:03.040 just watch and learn. In this episode, Olivia is pissed 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:07.400 because she has found out that her dude, her love 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:12.200 of her life, Fitzgerald Grant the Third, is fucking Amanda Tanner. 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.040 And now she's pissed, and now Amanda try to kill 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.000 herself and now here we are where she's like, oh, 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.680 Amanda Tanner, I'm going to get this bitch to be 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:23.120 my client. Okay. A couple other things about this episode 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.320 that need to be mentioned that are in uh some 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.240 notes G and I take notes people. G takes them 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.800 on paper. I take them on the notes. In section 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:36.640 of my Phone. He played a hacker and he can't 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:41.400 do anything technologically savvy, okay. David Rosen calls Olivia by 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:46.320 her whole name, Olivia Caroline Pope. Do you remember where 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:52.400 Caroline came from? Okay? I texted Carrie yesterday and I said, 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.480 do you remember where Caroline comes from? And she's like 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.680 not no. But I remember being on it and everyone 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.520 being like, oh my gosh, like it's so lovely that 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.120 her middle name is Caroline, because that's I want to 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.320 say Shonda's middle name, but I could be do you 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:12.520 not remember this at all? I don't remember this at all. Wait, 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.480 I'm texting I'm going to text you right now and 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.160 I'm gonna ask her. I really feel like it was 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:22.440 a special nod to something. This is also I remember 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.000 in this in that scene where he says her middle 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.320 name is the first time he goes to sort of 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.080 poker and Huck steps up and he's I do not 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.720 touch her. And it's the first time you see Huck 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.200 be sort of like um, You're like, oh, that's like 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.000 Olivia's like protective, like pit bull, like he's like her protector. 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.160 And I love that moment because he was like, I 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:46.760 will snap your neck. Mother. It was really that's when 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:51.200 you realize that, like, these aren't just lawyers. Quinn walks 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.240 in an episode one and says, so you're all lawyers, 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.479 and you're like, no, lawyers are for losers, like we're fixers, 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.920 were crisis managers. It's a whole package of different kinds 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.880 of people. And I always thought in episode two when 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.520 David Rosen goes to touch Olivia and you're like, do 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.440 not touch her, You're like, holy shit, these people are. Yeah, 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.240 they're like a whole mixed bag of crazy. Yeah, they 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:17.160 have scary baggage. This is also the episode where we 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:21.440 meet Morris, Yes, who we've got to have on this podcast. 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.560 I love him so much. Morris is the White House 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.760 security guard at the security gate that checks people in, 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:32.920 and he's so lovely and so wonderful and again, such 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.960 a secret sauce to this show because our guest stars 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:40.240 are co stars, are people with one line are just 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:45.200 fucking killing it. We meet Morris, and then right with Morris, 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.000 Olivia Pope is not getting checked into the White House 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:49.960 right like, they're not letting her in in this episode 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.720 I can't remember why do you remember? Why that Cyrus 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.679 thinks that Olivia is not on the President's side anymore, 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.240 so he's like he revokes her her past to the 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.920 White House. That's right. And so then we meet Billy 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.040 Chambers who's in line right behind Olivia, and he's like, oh, 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:05.760 hold on, let me just call the front gate and 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.960 let you in, and she's like, thanks so much. Billy. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.680 Did Billy know at that time that he was going 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.760 to be the Billy Chambers He couldn't have, right, No, 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:17.839 none of us, well, none of us knew, right, like 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.240 all the crazy stuff that we do on the show, 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.400 none of us knew to like the table read. In 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.679 this episode where we're dealing with the Madam. Abby's all 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.880 pissed because Steven. She finds out Steven's sleeping or has 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:34.680 slept with hors and paid prostitutes in the Madam's book. Yeah, 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:38.319 as one of her clients exactly. And when you guys 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.080 have those scenes where you're going through I don't think 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.120 Huck is there, but it's Harrison Wright and it's Steven 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.360 and they're talking about what sunny day is, what hard 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:53.640 works are, like speaking Greek and then um the world 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.280 around the world. So like for those of you, I 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:01.199 was laughing, and Abby Darby does such an amazing job 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.920 of being uncomfortable and asking like, well, what's hardwood floors, 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.960 like in her snarky ass way, and who what's the answer. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.840 The answer is so brilliant. It's it's when there's nothing 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.240 to match, the carpets don't match the drapes or something 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.240 like that, it just means that she's bald, right well, yeah, 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.880 like she's yeah, she got that Brazilian wax. She's but 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:28.840 like full full throttle, full full full. That's terrifying. Okay. 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.839 Then she's like, okay, fine, sunny day and they're like, 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.199 you don't have to wear a raincoat? Yeah, which is guys, 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.559 I'm so lame. I'm sitting on my bed. I'm like 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.200 hysterical laughing. Can you imagine being a writer in the 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.160 writer's room coming up with this bullshit? I do not. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.600 This is what I love about Scandal, especially these this 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.280 early these early scitles. Of why it gives me like 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.960 just such it makes me giddy is that the show 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:56.360 is fucking funny. And then I also love in this episode, 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:02.280 um that Olivia Pope says all cylinders people, let's go yes? 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.000 Is that the first time we hear her say that? 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.520 I think it might be. By the way, listeners, we're 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.600 dealing with only forty two minutes of television. This is 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.720 the second round of forty two minutes, and we're already 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:18.000 giving you such hashtags, such T shirts, such sayings, I 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:21.080 mean all cylinders people, let's go who says that? And 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.560 also speaking of T shirts, Katie and I are wearing 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.480 I think this was our first like merch that we 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.960 got gifted from Shonda and the producers. Right, it's like 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.320 a long sleeve black, really nice shirt that says scandal 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.720 on the front where like your you know, your chest 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.040 pocket would be where your booby and then on the 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:41.800 back it says do you want to be a gladiator 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.280 in a suit? Right? Or does it say I can't 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:49.719 stand up? Do you turn around? All week? It says, oh, yeah, 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:51.720 do you want to be a gladiator in a suit? 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:56.040 Which is so awesome. So this shirt, bravo to GEARMONI 0:12:56.080 --> 0:13:00.240 because this shirt is ten years old or some and 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.800 we are wearing it. Yes, yes, well, And I was 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.200 telling Katie I cannot dry this shirt because if I 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.080 dry it, it's gonna be like you know, it's it's 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.240 not going to go over my belly. Garo and I. 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.080 Over the course of this podcast, we have a lot 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.040 of vintage pieces that will be coming out. They might 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.600 be clothing, they might be gifts, they might be shipped 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:20.560 we stole from the Scandal set. They might be clothing 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.760 I stole from the Scandal set. But this shirt is 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:25.480 so special and I would never wear it in public 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.280 because it is way too fucking tight. Totally totally. You 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.040 know what's funny. I wore I had to go to 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:35.040 the grocery store to get detergent, and I have the 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.520 shirt on and I was in an aisle looking for 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:39.320 you know, looking for it, which one I was going 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.559 to pick, and a guy was like kept staring at me, 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.760 and I was like, oh crap, and he was like, 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:45.679 I loved you on Scandal and I was like, oh god, 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:51.520 I'm wearing this Scandle shirt. I was like, how how cheesy? No, no, 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:55.400 it's sweet. And everyone listening, so you know, I get recognized, 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.720 but I really look like everyone else, Like I really 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.480 think I'm like a pretty average age in size and height, 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.839 in in brown hair, brown eyes, Like you got to 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:09.160 really know, I can I don't Garmo fucking Diaz. Cannot 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:15.480 go anywhere like anywhere, I mean, traveling around with you. 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:17.680 I don't know how Mikey does it. I don't know 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.240 because you stick out like a sore thumb, like you're 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.680 just so special. You don't look like anyone else. You 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.160 have a vibe about you, You have a look. And 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.400 the greatest treat about that is that a lot of 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:33.240 times when Gammo gets recognized for Scandal, he also gets 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.080 recognized for Half Baked, and people are just passing you weed. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.240 People want to get me hot everywhere I go up. 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.280 We were in Israel and people were like, you want 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.600 to get high? Everywhere you got people want to get 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.640 you high. We were at the White House correspondent dinner. 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.800 What everyone's trying to get you high? Like everyone just 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.840 wants to say to their group of friends, I got 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.040 stoned with Gammo Diaz from Half Baked, or I got 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:59.240 stoned with Hawk or like whatever, You're just cool. You know. 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.640 Very early in my career, Katie, I learned that you 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.000 have to be kind to your fans. So I can't 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:09.880 say no, you know, so I'm I just you know, 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.160 I have to kindly access I will give you that memory. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.040 I will give you that memory. Please, it's not it's 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.720 it's okay, it's not too much off my back. Um, 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:21.720 what else did you love about this episode. One of 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.560 the things that I loved about about this episode, Katie 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.840 that's stuck out also was the sets. It's the first 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:29.880 I mean, you you see the sets of course in 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.720 the pilot, but this was the first time that you 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:37.280 see the recreated actual set where we shot the pilot 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.360 and an actual location in downtown at l A in 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:44.360 this in this old old building where those panels that 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.560 those window panels that we have on our show, those cracked, 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:51.840 flawed window panels were all real and are amazing. You know, 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.360 Scandal team that works on the sets at the stages 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.760 where we shot the show recreated that place like perfectly 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.200 and it looks so freaking good in this episode. That 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.680 is such a great point And what blessing did they 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:08.040 give us because the real one downtown, the real o 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:13.480 p A, the hallway was actually insanely long, and when 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:17.480 they recreated it on the stages, it was like still long, 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.720 but half the length. Because Quinn is constantly walking up 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.560 and down the hallway getting people coffee. Like I don't 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.120 think you had to deal with this, And I hate 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.080 wearing high heels and my feet are an issue at 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:30.680 all times. And those pencil skirts that kept like twisting 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.440 am I spanks. Every time I took a step, my 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:38.520 pencil skirt would just like rotate. I spent eighty hours 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.800 a week complaining about my feet, which Carrie Washington never did. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.320 And she's wearing like literally six inch every single high 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.120 end fashionable shoe. And I think I was in Jessica 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:51.240 Simpson like low price shoe because I you know, when 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.440 we did fittings, I would say like Quinn doesn't have 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.520 what Olivia Pope has, like I shouldn't be in product 0:16:56.600 --> 0:17:00.440 and all this ship. But anyway, they made the hallway 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.920 half the length when they recreated it, and I remember 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.760 being like, oh, thank you God, because this will just 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:11.240 log me like less steps where my feet and my 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.919 pencil skirt are just just ridiculous, like my feet were 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:18.280 hurting so badly. Do you also remember, Katie, the window 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.600 panels that I mentioned a little bit ago. We would 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.000 where we would have to put up people's photos. I 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.480 think you know this, Katie, but I when we wrapped 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:30.199 the series, I asked Mary Howard, who was one of 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.880 our producers. I asked her, Hey, is there any way 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.560 I can get one of those window panels, and they 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:37.960 sent me. They delivered one to my house, and it's 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.920 with the iron around it. Katie, it weighs like a tongue. 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.360 You didn't know that. No where is it in your house. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:45.879 It's in the right at the entrance of the house, 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.000 like on the wall right there. It's like one of 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.560 my favorite things that I have in my house. And 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.520 I was like, thank god I asked for this. I'm 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.719 seethingly jealous. They literally took one of those things and 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:03.359 delivered it to my house. Guillermo, that makes me like 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:05.919 sleep better at night knowing that you have one of 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:10.480 the window panes. Yes, and our o P A conference 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:15.639 table desk is the main conference room table at Shondalin 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:19.239 Offices in Hollywood. Wait, I didn't know that, Yep. I 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.199 was there once before. COVID and I walked past the 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.119 big conference room and it's the op a conference table 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:31.359 that you and I boned on where we would hide 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.840 all our sides on the chairs and then we scooched 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:35.840 them into the table and we boned on that table. 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:45.760 We should did. We'll be right back, guys. Okay, Quinn 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.159 has one job. You all are working on the Madam case. 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.359 You're all trying to her not give up her list 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.399 to David Rosen of all the people in DC who 0:18:56.400 --> 0:19:00.919 are sleeping with prostitutes. I simultaneous, I'm doing this b 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.440 story where I'm never supposed to let Amanda Tanner out 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.600 of my sight because we know that Gidey and Wallace, 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:09.800 who's a reporter from the Sun, has been sniffing around 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.080 and Olivia Pope doesn't want that getting out. So I'm 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:13.919 just supposed to be watching this girl. And Quinn's like, 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:16.640 I don't want to watch this girl. And then Olivia 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.480 is like, don't let her out of your site and 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:20.000 I'm like, right, don't let her out of your site. 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:21.560 Don't let her an I say, don't let her, say 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:25.080 don't let her out of my sight. She's gone. How 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.159 the hell did you get out there that quickly? And 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.679 also is that allowed? Don't you have to be discharged? 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.240 And then I go to your office and I say, 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:38.680 I'm going to barf. How do I find something that's 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:42.600 gone missing? And You're like, go check her house and 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:46.840 I'm like, oh house, check her house, and it's already 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:49.440 you know what's so lovely? Also going back, it's already 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:53.160 like I can see what the writers were seeing about 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:58.280 Huck taking Quinn under his wing, like you can already see, 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.159 like I always go to you. Abby is just like 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.840 so meant Quinn. It's insane and great and lovely and 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.440 I love it and like Harrison just doesn't have time 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:10.800 because he's just like Mr Man about town and you're 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:14.640 really the only person. Yeah, that's the left that we'll 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:17.920 talk to her, Katie. Do you remember that we used 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.480 to talk while we were filming the show, like how 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:22.560 did how did the writers know? And how does Shanda 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.400 know our relationships? Because you and I started to get 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:28.680 really close and then we'd be like, are there microphones 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.040 like in our trailers? Like and then we'd see it 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:33.560 in the scripts reflected in the scripts, right, we were 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:37.000 like always they know they have got to have bugged 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:40.720 the makeup so onsets. Makeup trailers is where a lot 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:45.400 of ship talking gets done. And that's mostly because you're 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:48.200 there at five o'clock in the morning. You know, your 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:50.520 makeup and hair people are the ones that are closest 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:53.320 to your face at all times, like when you're on 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:55.960 your period, when you've had a rough night, when you're 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:58.400 like so, the makeup trailer just sort of becomes this place, 0:20:58.440 --> 0:20:59.959 and I always like, this ship has got to be 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.280 bugged because we would talk about we would like have 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:06.280 relationships forming and like trust things happening, and then we 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:09.480 would see them a hundred percent reflected in scripts down 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.080 the road. Ye. Also, what we would do in the 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:14.280 trailer I was going to say was we were really 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:18.080 studious and we were drill lines. Well, we had to write. 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:20.320 We had to because we had to. We had to 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:23.240 scandal pace our dialogue, which I don't know if people 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.119 know we should say that it first started because the 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:28.200 scripts were so long, right, and there were so many 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:31.280 words that I think it was Shonda that said, you 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:33.639 guys have to talk fast to get all this stuff out, 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:36.520 and that's I think where it started. But then we all, 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:39.919 I think discovered little by little that the faster you 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:43.080 you speak, I mean, you know, the intention and the 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:46.840 we're still acting under the fast pace. But every time 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:51.280